Agricultural food crop yields have increased enormously due to the implementation of
chemical pesticides; however, their excessive and uncontrolled use has led to food …

Background Food safety issues leading to severe healthy, economic and even social
problems and detection of food contaminants has been attracting remarkable attention in …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has gained increasing attention because it
provides rich chemical information and high sensitivity, being applicable in many scientific …

Background Pesticide residues are known to cause serious problems to human health.
Although the detection of pesticides in fruit and fruit juice has been traditionally attempted …

Raman spectroscopy and surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) have been
extensively explored in the design of accurate, transparent, and conclusive food safety and …

The abuse of pesticides in agricultural land during pre-and post-harvest causes an increase
of residue in agricultural products and pollution in the environment, which ultimately affects …

A significant portion of the human diet is comprised of fruits, which are consumed globally
either raw or after being processed. A huge amount of waste and by-products such as skins …

Here we demonstrate a facile, two step formation of silver core-gold shell (Ag–Au)
nanostructures using microelectrodes and assess their performance as surface-enhanced …

A newly developed research topic, fabricated paper-based microfluidic sensors, was
discussed in the field of low-cost environmental detection. Distinguished with the traditional …

This study aims to develop a simple, sensitive, low-cost, environmentally friendly and flexible
surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platform, combined with a portable Raman …